GEORGE TARBOX was born on 9 May 1844 in Buxton, ME, the son of Elbridge G and Mary Ann (Lord) Tarbox of Buxton, Maine. He died in Old Orchard on 17 Oct 1928 (of cancer on the neck), aged 84 yrs, 5 mos, 8 das [ME vr]. He is buried in Dunstan Cemetery in Scarborough, ME.

Around 1874 (from 1900 census), he was married to SARAH A L ANDREWS, the daughter of Stephen and Eliza A (Smith) Andrews and the former wife of Augustus H Moore [York County Marr has Augustus H and Sarah A.S. Andrews of Biddeford marrying 3 Mar 1860]. She was born in Lyman, ME on 20 Jan 1843 and died on 7 Oct 1918 in Old Orchard [ME vr].

After his tour with the 27th Maine was complete, he enlisted into the 1st District of Columbia Cavalry, a private in Company M, on 10 Feb 1864. As this company was recruited and filled with Maine soldiers, it was transferred over to the 1st Maine Cavalry in August of 1864. During a battle at Sycamore Church on 16 Sept, George and over a hundred others were captured by the rebel forces. He was imprisoned for 6 months [where over half of his captured reg't would die], but survived to see the end of the war and was mustered out in August 1865 [see the History of the 1st Maine Cavalry 1861-65 by Edward P Tobie c1887]

For most of his life, George worked in the sawmills, a 'sawyer', in Buxton and in Old Orchard. He moved to the latter community after the 1880 Buxton census and before the 1886 OOB street directory was compiled. He lived on Ross Road.

George and Sarah did not have any children together*.

additional source data:* By Sarah's first marriage she had one child, daughter Emma J Moore, who was born in Biddeford (or Hollis) in 1860 and died on 5 Mar 1911 in Old Orchard, aged 50 yrs, 5 mos, 23 das. She had married first to Edwin Smith and secondly to Charles Berry. By Smith she had Edna Blanche, who married 1st Albert D Guilford (17 Oct, 1901) and after his death in 1912, she married his brother Ernest Lester (26 Aug,1913). They are all buried in the Tarbox plot in Dunstan Cem, Scarboro. This explains the Guilford's living with Tarbox in 1910+1920, his step-granddaughter and her husbands.

1850 Buxton census: (pg 2) h.h. 11/131860 Buxton (pg 2) h.h. 14/14 - on this rec, George is an apprentice carriage maker, only time he's not a millman1870 Buxton (pg 12) h.h. 107/1211880 Buxton h.h. 471/515 - note the parentheses on ages of family members, seemingly a guess by someone suppying enumerator with data, and a little of1886 Old Orchard St Direct. George a sawyer, house on Ross Rd.1888 Bidd., Saco + Old Orch. Direct: a 'shingle sawyer', liv Ross Rd1890 Vet Schedule: lived at Old Orchard [wife Sarah and mother-in-law also on sch as their former husbands were veterans of Civil War]1900 Old Orchard (pg 1B): h.h. 16/16 'owned farm' - called farmer. Geo. and Sarah married 26 years, she having 1 child, still living. Sarah's mother, now widow Eliza A Prescott, living with couple (also in 1910) 1907 York County Directory: George, millman, Ocean Park (Mrs Sarah)1910 Old Orchard (pg 8A) Ross Rd, owned farm on this road, still employed as sawyer[Albert and Blanche Guilford also here - believe it reads gr-son-in-law as she is dau of his step-dau]1920 Old Orchard (pg 9B): George is a widow [Ernest and E Blanche Guilford, called gr-ch here, but rather a 'step' relation]- Civil War Pension Index: George filed as invalid 3 Sep, 1891 [app #1055711, cert #862,051]